Australian Energy Market Operator

AEMO operates Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM), the interconnected power system in Australia’s eastern and south-eastern seaboard, and the Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) and power system in Western Australia.

AEMO operates gas retail markets in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia. AEMO also operates wholesale gas markets in south-eastern Australia, those being the Declared Wholesale Gas Market in Victoria (DWGM), the Short Term Trading Market in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney (STTM), and the Gas Supply Hub (GSH), whose trading locations are based at Wallumbilla in Queensland, and Moomba in South Australia. AEMO also operates the Natural Gas Services Bulletin Board (GBB), and is system operator of the Victorian Gas Declared Transmission System. AEMO is also responsible for Gas Services Information functions in Western Australia.

This document is provided to assist users of the Retail Electricity Market Procedures in understanding the overall framework within which they operate and also contains a dictionary of terms used in the Retail Electricity Market Procedures.

In accordance with clause 11.20.6 of the Rules, AEMO must, in consultation with the participating jurisdictions, publish a document (‘first-tier jurisdictional requirements publication’) that lists the documents that contain the applicable jurisdictional requirements referred to in clauses 11.20.2, 11.20.3 and 11.20.4 of the Rules.

List of all NEM Procedures, guidelines and Documents required by Chapter 7

AEMO publishes documentation about metering processes associated with metering in the National Electricity Market (NEM). A full list of NEM procedures, guidelines, and documents can be found on this page.